![]() This is where the second screen of play comes into … well, play. ![]() Why? Because the mountains were full of dangers. Perhaps most importantly, the player needed to gather quivers which provided much-needed ammunition in arrows.Īrrows were important. Also needed picking up was a boat for traveling along the rivers. Players needed to go into mountains to pick up an axe, needed for chopping through forests, and also a key, which would allow passage through gates at walls within the woodlands. Once the pieces of the crown were gathered, the player won the game. The goal was for the player to traverse forests, pass through gated walls, cross rivers, and make their way through mountains to get to a final mountain where they would seek out two pieces of the famed Crown of Kings. ![]() The first was a map of a vast wilderness with the player starting on the left side of the screen in a cabin. That first AD&D console game for the Intellivision, however, wasn’t truly a role playing game like its tabletop namesake, but was mainly an action and adventure game. The first console game, of course, was titled Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, which would be renamed a year later to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain when a sequel game was released. Mattel had received a license to make AD&D video games from TSR Inc., then the owners of all things D&D, and Mattel wasted little time in bringing such games to the public. One of those games was titled Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. More importantly, however, was the fact the Intellivision had some darn good games. Also, the Intellivision had far superior graphics to any other consoles available when it first hit stores, and it was the first home system to utilize a 16-bit processor. The Intellivision didn’t even have a proper joystick, something almost unheard of at the time, but came with controllers that used a directional pad and a numeral keyboard. First released to the public in 1979, the Intellivison console was perhaps ahead of its time. ![]() However, Atari had stiff competition from Mattel Electronics in the form of the Intellivision. To those of us old enough to remember, there is little doubt the king of home video game consoles in the early 1980s was the Atari 2600. ![]()
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